BRIEF THOUGHTS ABOUT JURY COMMUNICATION
For many years jury consultants Starr & Associates, http://starrandassociates.net/ published Insights a newsletter with information about communication with jurors. I saved an article from 1991 entitled: “television has changed the way jurors learn.” The points that were made then are still valid today. The article pointed out that jurors learn the great majority of their information from TV. Roughly 80% of all Americans get 90% of their information from television. The problem is that communication in the court room and communication through…